List of Indian Cricket Captains

People say cricket is a Religion but its more than that in India. Here is a List of Indian Cricket Captains.History of Indian Cricket goes back to the time British rule when players like Ranjitsinghji played for the English cricket team. Here is list of all Indian Cricket Captains who have represented India In all three formats which is ODI(One Day Internationals), Test Matches, T20s.

India Played its first test match on 31st May 1926 and first Indian captain was C.K. Naidu. What changed things for India happened under the captaincy of Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, It was under his captaincy that India started winning abroad. The most Successful Indian Test captain is M.S. Dhoni but Saurav Ganguly has the most test wins abroad. The current Indian cricket captain is Virat Kohli in all three formats.

Kapil Dev with 1983 world cup

INDIAN TEST CAPTAIN:

Sr.

Name

Year

Played

Won

Lost

Drawn

1

C.K. Naidu

1932-34

4

0

3

1

2

Maharajkumar

1936

3

0

2

1

3

Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi

1946

3

0

1

2

4

Lala Amarnath

1947-52

15

2

6

7

5

Vijay hazare

1953

14

1

5

8

6

Vinoo Mankad

1954-58

6

0

1

5

7

Ghulam Ahmed

1955-58

3

0

2

1

8

Polly Umrigar

1955-58

8

2

2

4

9

Hemu Adhikari

1958-59

1

0

0

1

10

Datta Gaekwad

1959

4

0

4

0

11

Pankaj Roy

1959

1

0

1

0

12

Gulabrai Ramchand

1959-60

5

1

2

2

13

Nari Contractor

1960-62

12

2

2

8

14

Mansoor Ali Khan Patuadi

1961-75

40

9

19

12

15

Chandu Borde

1967-68

1

0

1

0

16

Ajit Wadekar

1970-74

16

4

4

8

17

Srinivas Venkataghavan

1974-79

5

0

2

3

18

Sunil Gavaskar

1975-84

47

9

8

30

19

Bishen Singh Bedi

1975-78

22

6

11

5

20

Gundappa Vishwanath

1979-80

2

0

1

1

21

Kapil Dev

1982-86

34

4

7

23

22

Dilip Vengasarkar

1987-89

10

2

5

3

23

Ravi Shastri

1987-88

1

1

0

0

24

Krishnamachari Srikkanth

1989-90

4

0

0

4

25

Mohammad Azharuddin

1989-99

47

14

14

19

26

Sachin Tendulkar

1996-00

25

4

9

12

27

Saurav Ganguly

2000-06

49

21

13

15

28

Rahul Dravid

2003-07

25

8

6

11

29

Virendra Sehwag

2005-12

4

2

1

1

30

Anil Kumble

2007-08

14

3

5

6

31

M.S. Dhoni

2008-15

60

27

18

15

32

Virat Kohli

2015-present

46

26

10

10

33

Ajinkya Rahane

2017-

2

2

0

0

INDIAN ODI CAPTAIN:

M.S. Dhoni with the 2011 world cup

Ajit Wadekar was the first captain for the One day International team .What changed things for India was the captaincy of Kapil Dev, when India won the world cup in 1983. India won its Second world cup under the captaincy of M.S. Dhoni in 2011 who is the most Successful One day Captain.

Kohli current Captain

Sr.

Name

Year

Played

Won

Lost

Tied

No Result

1

Ajit Wadekar

1974

2

0

2

0

0

2

Srinivas Venkatraghavan

1975-79

7

1

6

0

0

3

Bishen Singh Bedi

1975-78

4

1

3

0

0

4

Sunil Gavaskar

1980-85

37

14

21

0

2

5

Gundappa Vishwanath

1980-81

1

0

1

0

0

6

Kapil Dev

1982-92

74

39

33

0

2

7

Syed Kirmani

1983-84

1

0

1

0

0

8

Mohinder Amarnath

1984-85

1

0

0

0

1

9

Ravi Shastri

1986-91

11

4

7

0

0

10

Dilip Vengasarkar

1987-89

18

8

10

0

0

11

Krishnamachari Srikkanth

1989-90

13

4

8

0

1

12

Mohammed Azaharuddin

1989-99

174

90

76

2

6

13

Sachin tendulkar

1996-00

73

23

43

1

6

14

Ajay Jadeja

1997-00

13

8

5

0

0

15

Saurav Ganguly

1999-05

146

76

65

0

5

16

Rahul Dravid

2000-07

79

42

33

0

4

17

Anil Kumble

2001-02

1

1

0

0

0

18

Virendra Sehwag

2003-11

12

7

5

0

0

19

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

2007-2016

200

110

74

5

11

20

Suresh Raina

2010-14

12

6

5

0

1

21

Gautam Gambhir

2010-11

6

6

0

0

0

22

Virat Kohli

2013-present

65

49

14

1

1

23

Ajinkya Rahane

2015

3

3

0

0

0

24

Rohit Sharma

2017

10

8

2

0

0

INDIAN T20 CAPTAIN:

M.S. Dhoni with the t20 World cup 2007

It is the Shortest format of the game and M.S. Dhoni was the first captain of India in this format and India won the Inaugural World cup in 2007. M.S. Dhoni is the most successful captain in this format as well.

In term of area India is placed at 7th number in the world and it keeps second most populated country. India is like a sub-continent rather than a country. India has different parts and so many languages, cultures, manners and has different historical backgrounds. Official name of the country is Republic of India and Indians call their country as INDIA. Two other names for India are BHARAT and HINDUSTAN which is less known outside of India.